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July 19, 2006

UNM's Chace Receives Lifetime Service Award

The Association of Physical Plant Administrators (APPA) has awarded Harvey D. Chace, UNM Physical Plant associate director for maintenance and planning, its highest individual service honor – the Meritorious Service Award – for his long-time contributions to the association. The award was presented during APPA's awards banquet at the “Campus of the Future” conference in Honolulu, Hawaii recently.

Physical Plant Director Mary Vosevich applauded Chace's honor. “Harvey has established a national reputation as an expert in the science of accounting for and planning for the stewardship of higher education's existing facility portfolio. We are lucky to have this level of management talent at UNM,” said Vosevich.

Active on the national level, Chace serves as one of four associate directors of APPA's Center for Facilities Research (CFaR), where he assisted with the roll-out planning and development of the Researchers Guide and developed policy and processes for participation of student chapters in CFaR-sponsored research. Chace authored a chapter in the 2003 APPA publication, Planning and Managing the Campus Portfolio (Vision and Facility Resource Alignment). He has served as Rocky Mountain regional representative to APPA's board of directors and has also served as president of the Rocky Mountain APPA region. Chace was a recipient of APPA's 2005 Pacesetter Award.

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